Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-02-03

All after the enacting clause has been
stricken out Of the bill to grant teachers
certificates to graduates of the Michigan
university.
Among the bills introduced in the sen
ate is one to provide for indetermiEate
sentences and disposition OF criminals
under snch sentence.
The house has recommitted the bill per-
hitting soldiers wives to enter the state
soldiers home, when married prior to
1862. An amendment was unanimously
passed limiting the act to wives married
prior to 1866. Mr.. Baker urged that the
home was already overlooking with
soldiers; that it was built on the dormitory
plan and there was no accommodations
for women. II the bill passed more build
deferred till the committee can visit the
home and ascertain If women can be accom-
modated.
In committee of the whole the house
passed the Breen bill for the suppression
Of the infamous dance houses of the upper
peninsula. Mr.. Breen, the author OF the
bill, made an eloquent and effective argu-
ment depicting the horrors OF the system
by which young girls are entlced into tn
dance houses OF the mining camps under
false representations, and then compelled
TO give themselves up TO lives OF shame,
and very graphically described the method
Of chasing the unfortunate wretches who
escaped, by putting dogs on their trails.
with five years Imprisonment any person
connected with these dens.
The house has passed a bill to define the
qualifications of deputy and under sheriffs.
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and under sheritfs shall be citizens OF this
state and qualified electors in the county
where they shall be appointed or elected.
The house has also passed q bill provid-
Ing that every person who shall keep a
house of i'll fame, resorted to for the pur-
pose of prostitution or lewdness shall be
punished by imprisonment in the state
prison not more than five years, or In the
county jail not more than one year or by
fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both such
nne and imprisonment, in the discretion
of the court"
The senate has passed bill appropriate.
ing $S,5S7 for q state weather service, and
has also adopted q resolution asking
Michigan senator's and representatives in
congress to take speedy action upon the
measure for the purchase by the general
government of the Portage lake canals, as
recommended by the commission OF the
war uopdIbiheut.
The senate has passed the joint resolu
tion introduced In an passed by the house
directing the payment to Mrs Ovid N
Case of Detroit OF the salary which would
have accrued to her deceased husband had
se lived to serve out his term.
A Joint committee of the two houses has
cen appointed, and instructed to ex
smine into the charges Of inhuman treat
ment at the soldiers home, and report
speedily.
Petitions numerously signed have been
sent to both houses, relative to the consti
tutional limitation affecting the terms Of
Office of sheriffs. These petitions indicate
that there is pretty general feeling In
favor Of removing the limitations.
The senate chamber was the scene OF on,
of a most decidedly interesting occur
rences connected with this session of the
legislature, on the day when the join
resolution relative to the submission &c
the people of an amendment to the consti
tuition prohibitory of the liquor traffic In
Michigan. The debate which followed thu
reading Of the resolution was very ami
mated and partise 4, and indicated very
forcibly the positions Of the participant
upon this question.